Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Faculty member of Psychology Department, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 Master of Educational Psychology
Abstract
< p class="a">In the present study, academic performance of students using ‘grade-skipping’ means for accelerating their education (i.e. ‘GS’ students as the experimental group) was compared with those who have never used such accelerating approaches (i.e., ‘Non-GS’ students as the control group). The sample included 60 GS and 90 Non-GS students randomly selected from all male and female Ahvaz primary school students. According to the main hypothesis of this study, a significant difference was expected to be found between academic performance of the two groups. GPAs for the academic year prior to and the one following ‘grade-skipping’ were used as indices of students’ academic performance. Data analysis uncovered no significant difference between the two groups regarding their academic performance. This finding continued to persist even two years folowing the grade-skipping year, both for male and female subjects.
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